Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber

• varieties of English world-wide (special focus: Caribbean)
• English-based Pidgins and Creoles
• language contact
• sociolinguistics
• corpus linguistics
• language use in media

Academic Education

01.2004 – 07.2010

Post-doctoral degree (‘Habilitation’) in English Philology, University of Freiburg

10.1999 – 12.2003

PhD in English Philology, University of Freiburg

04.2001 – 03.2003

PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

04. – 10.2000

Visiting PhD student, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria (DAAD scholarship)

04.1992 – 07.1999

MA in English, German and Romance Philologies, University of Freiburg

09.1995 – 03.1996

Visiting student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (DAAD scholarship)

10.1993 – 03.1994

Visiting student, University of Durham, UK (DAAD scholarship)

Positions

since 10.2010

Chair of Variation Linguistics, English Department, University of Münster

04.2004 – 09.2010

Assistant professor, English Department, University of Freiburg

10.2006 – 09.2007

Visiting researcher and lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (DAAD scholarship)

04.2003 – 03.2004

Research assistant, English Department, University of Freiburg

10.2000 – 03.2001

Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg

10.1999 – 03.2000

Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg

External Functions

2016 – 2018

Editorial board member, Journal of English Linguistics

since 2015

Member of the editorial advisory committee, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

2013 – 2023

English World-Wide (Editorial board, member)

Granted

• Variation in English on the internet and its implications II: an empirical study of web registers in the Anglophone Caribbean (2026 – 2029)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: DE 2324/3-2

In Process

• Variation in English on the internet and its implications: an empirical study of web registers in South Asian countries (2021 – 2026)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: DE 2324/3-1

Finished

• Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception (2020 – 2026)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: DE 2324/1-2
• International Corpus of English - Trinidad and Tobago component – ICE-T&T (2006 – 2022)
  Own Resources Project
• Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean: Regional, global and transnational aspects in standards of English (2015 – 2020)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: DE 2324/1-1

• Books (Monographs)
• Articles

Books (Monographs)

• Deuber, Dagmar. 2014. English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2005. Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting London: Battlebridge.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines

Research Articles (Journals)

• Deuber, Dagmar, Shakir, Muhammad, and Oyebola, Folajimi Kehinde. 2025. “Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling.” English World-Wide 46 (1): 1–27. doi: 10.1075/eww.24018.deu.
• Shakir, Muhammad, Deuber, and Dagmar. 2024. “Code-switching in South Asian English CMC.” English World-Wide 45 (3): 311–341. doi: 10.1075/eww.23068.sha.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Lacoste, Véronique. 2024. “Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica.” Lingua 308: 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103777.
• Meer, Philipp, Fuchs, Robert, Deuber, Dagmar, Lacoste, Véronique, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. 2023. “Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad.” World Englishes 42 (1): 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
• Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2023. “Compiling a corpus of South Asian online Englishes: A report, some reflections and a pilot study.” ICAME Journal 47 (1): 119–139. doi: 10.2478/icame-2023-0007.
• Deuber, Dagmar, Hackert, Stephanie, Hänsel, Eva Canan, Laube, Alexander, Hejrani, Mahyar, and Laliberté, Catherine. 2022. “The norm orientation of English in the Caribbean: A comparative study of newspaper writing from ten countries.” American Speech 97 (3): 265–310. doi: 10.1215/00031283-8791736.
• Hänsel, Eva Canan, Westphal, Michael, Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2022. “Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37 (1): 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
• Westphal, Michael, Lau, KaMan, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2022. “Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37 (2): 357–394. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00098.wes.
• Deuber, Dagmar, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Westphal, Michael. 2021. “Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.” World Englishes 40 (3): 1–23. doi: 10.1111/weng.12465.
• Meer, Philipp, Westphal, Michael, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2019. “Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34 (1): 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
• Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2019. “The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English: A recognition survey of newscaster accents in the Caribbean.” English World-Wide 40 (3): 241–268. doi: 10.1075/eww.00031.han.
• Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2019. “A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns.” English World-Wide 40 (1): 1–23. doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
• Deuber, Dagmar, Leimgruber, Jakob R. E., and Andrea, Sand. 2018. “Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33 (1): 48–91. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00002.deu.
• Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2018. “A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.” World Englishes 37 (4): 607–623. doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
• Wilson, Guyanne, Westphal, Michael, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2017. “The use of question tags in different text types of Trinidadian English.” World Englishes 36 (4): 726–743. doi: 10.1111/weng.12247.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Leung, Glenda. 2013. “Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.” Multilingua 32 (3): 289–319. doi: 10.1515/multi-2013-0014.
• Hänsel, Eva, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2013. “Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.” World Englishes 32 (3): 338–357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2013. “Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: A study of students' beliefs and school curricula.” Language, Culture and Curriculum 26 (2): 109–127. doi: 10.1080/07908318.2013.794816.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2010. “Modal verb usage at the interface of English and a related Creole: A corpus-based study of can/could and will/would in Trinidadian English.” Journal of English Linguistics 38 (2): 105–142. doi: 10.1177/0075424209348151.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2010. “Standard English and situational variation: Sociolinguistic considerations in the compilation of ICE-Trinidad and Tobago.” ICAME Journal 34: 24–40.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2009. “"The English we speaking": Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24 (1): 1–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.24.1.02deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Hinrichs, Lars. 2007. “Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” World Englishes 26 (1): 22–47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2002. “"First year of nation's return to government of make you talk your own make I talk my own": Anglicisms versus pidginization in news translations into Nigerian Pidgin.” English World-Wide 23 (2): 195–222. doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.03deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2000. “Ethnicity versus national integration in Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective.” Journal of Cultural Studies 2: 206–218. doi: 10.4314/jcs.v2i1.6243.

Review (Journals)

• Deuber, Dagmar. 2021. “Review of David Jowitt, Nigerian English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019).” English Language & Linguistics 25 (3): 671–675. doi: 10.1017/S1360674320000416.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2016. “Review of Carolin Biewer, South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015).” Anglistik 27 (2): 198–199.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Review of Dele Adeyanju, ed., The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages (München: Lincom, 2009).” English World-Wide 33 (2): 231–235. doi: 10.1075/eww.33.2.10deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2009. “Review of Farzad Sharifian and Gary B. Palmer, eds., Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for Second Language Learning and Intercultural Communication (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007).” Multilingua 28 (4): 471–474. doi: 10.1515/mult.2009.020.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2008. “Review of John Holm und Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars (London: Battlebridge, 2007).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33 (2): 338–341.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2006. “Review of Michael Aceto und Jeffrey P. Williams, eds., Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31 (2): 250–253.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2005. “Review of Paul Skandera, Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).” World Englishes 24 (4): 551–552. doi: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00439.x.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2005. “Review of Susanne Mühleisen, Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 30 (1/2): 271–274.

Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)

• Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. 2007. “Teacher language in Trinidad: A pilot corpus study of direct and indirect creolisms in the verb phrase.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
• Youssef, Valerie, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2007. “ICE Trinidad and Tobago: Teacher language investigation in a university research class.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.

Book Contributions

Research Article (Book Contributions)

• Westphal, Michael, Brüggemann, Katharina, Fischer, Kathi, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2021. “Sociolinguistic competence and TEIL: A study of the sociolinguistic awareness and perceptions of be like among German learners of English.” in Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, edited by Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer and Michael Westphal. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-10.
• Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2020. “Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model.” in Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by Sarah Buschfeld and Alexander Kautzsch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. 2019. “The English of current Caribbean newspapers: American, British, in between or neither?” in Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by Viola Wiegand and Michaela Mahlberg. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110489071_003.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2017. “The Indian tabloid in English: What type of community does it speak to, and how?” in Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, Vol. 190 of Cross/Cultures, edited by Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004335288_009.
• Hackert, Stephanie, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2015. “American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.” in Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, edited by Peter Collins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/scl.67.16hac.
• Leung, Glenda Alicia, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2014. “Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch.” in English in the Indian Diaspora, edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g50.02leu.
• Hackert, Stephanie, Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, and Hilbert, Michaela. 2013. “Modals of possibility, ability and permission in selected New Englishes.” in Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes, Vol. 13 of Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change, edited by Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee. Helsinki: VARIENG.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Sand, Andrea. 2013. “Computer-mediated communication in Singapore: Spoken language features in weblogs and a discussion forum.” in Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, edited by Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. 2012. “Trinidadian Creole.” in The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, edited by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110280128.
• Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, Hackert, Stephanie, and Hilbert, Michaela. 2012. “Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies.” in Mapping Unity and Diversity in English World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Vol. 43 of Varieties of English around the world, edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g43.04deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2011. “The creole continuum and individual agency: Approaches to stylistic variation in Jamaica.” in Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency, edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.37.09deu.
• Hinrichs, Lars, and Deuber, Dagmar. 2010. “Writing non-standardized Pidgin/Creole languages in computer-mediated communication: A comparison of orthographic strategies in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” in Sprach- und Kulturkontakt in den Neuen Medien, edited by Ulla Kleinberger Günther and Franc Wagner. Bern: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0079-2.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2009. “Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects.” in World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g40.08deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2009. “Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis.” in Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042029101_022.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2006. “Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures.” in Structure and Variation in Language Contact, edited by Ana Deumert and Stéphanie Durrleman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.29.14deu.
• Deuber, Dagmar, and Oloko, Patrick. 2003. “Linguistic and literary development of Nigerian Pidgin: The contribution of radio drama.” in The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies., edited by Christian Mair. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401200929_022.

Entries in Encyclopediae (Book Contributions)

• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Syntax.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Substitution test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Style.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Interactional sociolinguistics.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Creole continuum.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Kortmann Bernd. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Deuber, Dagmar. 2012. “Constituent test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Supervised Doctoral Studies

• Hartmann, Johanna (2026): Mobile outer circle speakers’ attitudes towards different varieties of English
• Durgasingh, Ryan (2026): Influences on Trinidadian English Morphosyntax

  Supervisors

  Gut, Ulrike

• Gao, Cuicui (2026): Metadiscourse in Academic Lectures: A Comparative Analysis of MOOCs and University Lectures

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

• Hänsel, Eva Canan (2026): Standard accents in the Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational system: A study of attitudes and usage

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

• Lau, Ka Man (2024): Language use in social media marketing in Hong Kong: Variation and attitudes

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

• Meer, Philipp (2023): Standard English in Trinidadian Secondary Schools: Accent Variation and Attitudes

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

  Reviewers

  Deuber, Dagmar

  Gut, Ulrike

• Gerfer, Anika (2023): White appropriation of Jamaican Creole in reggae and dancehall music

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

  Reviewers

  Gut, Ulrike

  Schneider, Edgar

• Jansen, Lisa (2020): English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

• Li, Zeyu (2020): Acquisition of Rhoticity by Second Language (L2) Learners of English

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

  Reviewers

  Gut, Ulrike

  Deuber, Dagmar

• Muhammad, Shakir (2020): A corpus based comparison of variation in online registers of Pakistani English using MD analysis
• Oyebola Kehinde, Folajimi (2020): Attitudes of Nigerians towards Accents of English

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

• Westphal, Michael (2016): Linguistic variation in Jamaican radio
• Wilson, Guyanne Alexis (2013): The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad

  Further Supervisor

  Gut, Ulrike

Supervised Postdoctoral Study

• Westphal, Michael (2023): Pragmatic variation worldwide: A variational-pragmatic analysis of question tags in different varieties of English